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After the weird teaser which cause a little controversy we’re now presented with a video promo called “Bowling for Shanghai”.

Square Enix Europe announced that the game can be expected in 2010 courtesy of IO Interactive. The game will be released under the Eidos brand which is to be renamed to Square Enix Europe.

Source: Joystiq & VG247

Probably one of the games I’m looking forward most this second half of the year is Mini Ninjas. The demo dated for August 20th will give us a peak of what we can expect in feudal Japan where Hiro, Futo and Suzume will plan their adventure.

The full game will be out on September 8th across North America and from September 11th in the PAL region.

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The highly anticipated and mostly likely, hyped game by it’s developer and distributor will get a demo on friday August 7th.

Players will be able to check it out, and you will see the introduction and play through the first mission. Batman and Commissioner Gordon are trying to return the Joker to Arkham Asylum but things go awry (if you couldn’t guess), and furthermore, the demo will let you unlock character bios and “get a sneak peak at some of the infamous foes that Batman will encounter with the cavernous and macabre confines of Arkham Asylum

The good thing still remains that on the PlayStation 3 you’ll able to play the Joker (will probably get available later for the 360).

The release date is still scheduled for August 25th in North America and the 28th for the PAL region.

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After Dan’s question, wondering when the trophy patch came out.

So we went to scourge the web and found a post on the forum of Eidos announcing a release date of May 28th. This will be a worldwide release.

In case you didn’t know what the trophies were we have a list of them after the break.

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Eidos announced that as of yesterday (May 22nd) the latest Tomb Raider title has entered the Platinum Hits. You will now be able to get the game at £19.99 RRP.

Final Fantasy creators Square Enix have placed a bid to take over publisher Eidos. The bid amount is believed to be around the £84.3 million mark.

President of Square Enix Yoichi Wada said:

Eidos is a talented developer and publisher of interactive entertainment products with a broad portfolio of highly successful mass market franchises, led by Tomb Raider, one of the most successful videogame franchises of all time.

We believe that wide range of both companies’ quality products encompassing major genres will enable us to meet diversified customers’ expectations upon a global basis.

If Square do take over Eidos, i wonder what the next Tomb Raider game be like?

The bid hasnt been approved yet.

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For unknown reasons Just Cause has been pushed back to 2009 by Eidos.

Avalanche Studios was planning on implementing many of the features they couldn’t in the first part and improvements fed by the community. One of these features is chaos activities that reward destructive rampages by increasing influence with associated factions. After you have gained enough influence you might even over throw opposing governments.
Also looking to be improved are enemy AI, new lock-on targeting that allows individual limbs to be picked out, bigger guns and better vehicle controls.

We will keep you posted once we get a reply from Avalanche about the delay.

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Previously known as Tomb Raider 8, Tomb Raider Underworld, developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos is set to be released by the end of the year.

Underworld will resume the adventure where Tomb Raider Legend left off and will answer things that were unexplained. The game will be based in Southern Mexico.

This is what PSM (July 2008 issue of Playstation magazine (UK)) have to say about Tomb Raider Underworld:

“Seeing Lara squeezed into a wetsuit, standing on the deck of her luxury yacht anchored in the Med, two things are clear. First, we really need to return ‘Into The Blue’ to the video shop. Second, the grave-robbing must be going well if she can afford the kind of boat that Donald Trump would dismiss as showy.”

“Lara arrives at this new location – the first level of Tomb Raider Underworld – after learning her father found something here shortly before he disappeared. And at the bottom of the sea lies a submerged temple that hides a lot of the answers to Lara’s questions.”

“This location is hiding a big secret, though. The main chamber is blocked by a Kraken (read: ‘big angry octopus’) whose tentacles are wound through the door, pulling it firmly shut. Getting rid of the big squid involves leaping from ledges and poles to creaky old switches and mechanisms, finally releasing a large platform suspended over the leggy flesh-sack’s head.”

“One of the new game-play features in Underworld appears as Lara clambers through the cavern. As she crosses a bridge the Kraken swings one of his tree-sized tentacles, triggering an ‘Adrenaline Moment.’ Rather than the button matching mini-games from Legend or Anniversary, this causes a flash of slow motion, giving Lara a split second to evade the limb as it crushes the bridge under her feet.”

“Perhaps the best demonstration of just how good this all looks in action, however, comes when Lara reaches the last switch and drops the platform onto the creature – crushing it under a huge slab of rock. It’s impossible to tell whether squid-face’s roaring death throes and thrashing tentacles are a glossy CGI sequence or the in-game engine.”

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And now for the concept art.